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The contraction of skeletal muscles is based on ________

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. myosin filaments coiling up to become shorter
  2. actin and myosin filaments both coiling up to become shorter
  3. actin cross-bridges binding to myosin and transitioning from a high-energy to a low-energy state
  4. myosin cross-bridges binding to actin and transitioning from a high-energy to a low-energy state
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#Question id: 12285

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The principle of competitive exclusion states that

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Keystone predators can maintain species diversity in a community if they

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#Question id: 12287

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Food chains are sometimes short because

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#Question id: 3296

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Some beetles and flies have antler-like structures on their heads, much like male deer. The existence of antlers in beetle, fly, and deer species with strong male-male competition is an example of

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#Question id: 12349

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Males in a population differ in the time they spend displaying to females. A researcher hypothesizes that predators are responsible for these differences. Males display for longer durations when there are no predators in the vicinity and for shorter durations when there is a predator nearby. Which of the following study designs is the most appropriate test of this hypothesis?

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#Question id: 12347

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

A team of conservation biologists, surveying a population of frogs on an island, captured and marked 312 individuals in the first sample. In a second sampling, 3 days later, the team caught 140 individuals of which 26 were previously marked. The total number of frogs on the island is estimated to be . (Use decimal notation, not fractions or percentage)